North Carolina vs. Notre Dame

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. North Carolina’s biggest win2008: North Carolina 29, Notre Dame 24by 5 points
2. Notre Dame’s biggest win1949: Notre Dame 42, North Carolina 6by 36 points
3. Ranked showdown1950: Notre Dame 14, North Carolina 7No. 20 North Carolina at No. 1 Notre Dame
4. Ranked showdown2020: Notre Dame 31, North Carolina 17No. 2 Notre Dame at No. 25 North Carolina

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from North Carolina’s side (Snavely 0–⁠4 against Leahy). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1949 · Evening star, Nov 13, 1949

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  1950 · Evening star, Oct 1, 1950

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  1952 · Evening star, Oct 26, 1952

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  1953 · Evening star, Nov 16, 1953

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  1955 · Evening star, Nov 13, 1955

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

Every game is listed as played on the field; a win the NCAA later vacated is marked “vacated”; the official series above counts them the NCAA’s way.

• North Carolina vs. Virginia120 meetings, North Carolina 65–⁠51–⁠4
• North Carolina vs. Wake Forest107 meetings, North Carolina 71–⁠34–⁠2
• North Carolina vs. Duke106 meetings, North Carolina 64–⁠38–⁠4
• North Carolina vs. NC State106 meetings, North Carolina 60–⁠41–⁠5
• Notre Dame vs. Navy98 meetings, Notre Dame 84–⁠13–⁠1
• Notre Dame vs. USC96 meetings, Notre Dame 53–⁠38–⁠5
• Notre Dame vs. Purdue90 meetings, Notre Dame 62–⁠26–⁠2
• Notre Dame vs. Pittsburgh74 meetings, Notre Dame 52–⁠21–⁠1